Catalan

Catalan may refer to:

Catalonia

From, or related to Catalonia:

• Catalan language, a Romance language
• Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia

Places

• 13178 Catalan, asteroid #13178, named "Catalan"
• Catalán (crater), a lunar crater named for Miguel Ángel Catalán
• Çatalan, İvrindi, a village in Balıkesir province, Turkey
• Çatalan, Karaisalı, a village in Adana Province, Turkey
• Catalan Bay, Gibraltar
• Catalan Sea, more commonly known as the Balearic Sea
• Catalan Mediterranean System, the Catalan Mountains

Facilities and structures

• Çatalan Bridge, Adana, Turkey
• Çatalan Dam, Adana, Turkey
• Catalan Batteries, Gibraltar

People

• Catalan, Lord of Monaco (1415–1457), Lord of Monaco from 1454 until 1457
• Alfredo Catalán (born 1968), Venezuelan politician
• Alex Catalán (born 1968), Spanish filmmaker
• Arnaut Catalan (1219–1253), troubador
• Diego Catalán (1928–2008), Spanish philologist
• Emilio Arenales Catalán (1922–1969) Guatemalan politician
• Eugène Charles Catalan (1814–1894), French and Belgian mathematician
• Miguel A. Catalán (1894–1957), Spanish spectroscopist
• Moses Chayyim Catalan (died 1661), Italian rabbi
• Sergio Catalán (born 1991) Chilean soccer player

Mathematics

Mathematical concepts named after mathematician Eugène Catalan:

• Catalan numbers, a sequence of natural numbers that occur in various counting problems
• Catalan solids, a family of polyhedra
• Catalan's constant, a number that occurs in estimates in combinatorics
• Catalan's conjecture

Wine

• Catalan (grape), another name for the wine grape Mourvèdre
• Catalan wine, an alternative name used in France for wine made from the Carignan grape
  • Carignan, a wine grape that is also known as Catalan

Sports and games

• Catalan Opening, in chess
• Catalan Open, golf tournament
• Catalans Dragons, a rugby league team often known simply as Catalan
• XIII Catalan, a rugby league team from Perpignan, France

Other uses

• Battle of Catalán (1817) in Uruguay
• Catalan Sheepdog
• Catalan Company, medieval mercenary company
• Catalan vault, architectural design element
• The Catalans, a 1953 novel by Patrick O'Brian

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Catalan
• All pages with titles containing catalans
• All pages with titles containing catalan
• Catalonia (disambiguation)
• Catalunya (disambiguation)
• Anti-Catalanism